news.cnet.com— Domainsquatting is one thing, but what about Twittersquatting? Domain search tool Domain Pigeon is now showing users which usernames are still open.
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I can see where it could be useful to many people but for myself I consider it to be kind of useless. I'm not famous, I don't have a job in which it would be useful. Except for a small handful of people in my life, no one really gives a s**t what quotes I find inspirational, what I had for breakfast, what sort of night I had at work, or that I'm hung over. Not even my family members care that much about that sort of mundane s**t . And for the ones that do...I have facebook, skype, IM, email and a cell phone. For more meaningful thoughts I might have, I guess I can blog. I just don't find my everyday life that twitter worthy.
A trademark costs $250 or something. Those of us who are just starting out (photography is my forte) find it difficult to justify coming up with that money at first.I don't care about promoting on twitter, but I'm still pissed about a domain that I tried to register in 2005 that is still a squatted ad site.
Yeah, in some cases, but when you're following your closest friends and a few news sources it's a quick fix on what's going on in your life. Twitter hate on Digg is as cliched as Apple love.Same on Reddit. Seriously. I can't remember exactly what, but I remember some news breaking on Twitter and only twitter (before the news media picked it up), and people were bitching solely because of the fact that it was on twitter. It's stupid.Twitter is retarded if you're an idiot and you add every damn person who requests that you follow them, otherwise, it's interesting enough to not warrant bitching.
jennyvanApr 11, 2009
I can see where it could be useful to many people but for myself I consider it to be kind of useless. I'm not famous, I don't have a job in which it would be useful. Except for a small handful of people in my life, no one really gives a s**t what quotes I find inspirational, what I had for breakfast, what sort of night I had at work, or that I'm hung over. Not even my family members care that much about that sort of mundane s**t . And for the ones that do...I have facebook, skype, IM, email and a cell phone. For more meaningful thoughts I might have, I guess I can blog. I just don't find my everyday life that twitter worthy.
yocouchdiggaApr 11, 2009
well said.
coheedcollapseApr 11, 2009
A trademark costs $250 or something. Those of us who are just starting out (photography is my forte) find it difficult to justify coming up with that money at first.I don't care about promoting on twitter, but I'm still pissed about a domain that I tried to register in 2005 that is still a squatted ad site.
coheedcollapseApr 11, 2009
Yeah, in some cases, but when you're following your closest friends and a few news sources it's a quick fix on what's going on in your life. Twitter hate on Digg is as cliched as Apple love.Same on Reddit. Seriously. I can't remember exactly what, but I remember some news breaking on Twitter and only twitter (before the news media picked it up), and people were bitching solely because of the fact that it was on twitter. It's stupid.Twitter is retarded if you're an idiot and you add every damn person who requests that you follow them, otherwise, it's interesting enough to not warrant bitching.
xinoApr 11, 2009
Stop following people that talk about what they had for breakfast then.